Rutherfordman
DIY Member
So I got the 60 gallon tank installed this morning on the system and have left the 20 gallon at the pressure switch. At first there was almost a 15 psi difference between the tanks. I suspected the water filter was terribly clogged which was between them as I just bought the house and have not replaced it. As usual could not get the dang thing apart to pull it out. About everyone of these cartridge type inline filters is a bear to get apart so if anyone knows another type that you can remove and replace filters easily I am all ears. Anyway I just cut the thing out of the pipe and spliced in a new section of pipe. Sure enough once I did that there is only about 3-4 psi difference between the tanks. Later on today showers needed to happen so I could check things out better. I watched as the pressure gage got down to just below 40 psi at the tank at the pressure switch and the pump kicked on. It ran up to 60 psi and shutoff as usual but when I checked the new tank on the system it was only at 50 psi when this happened. It evened out to where there was 5 psi between the two. Not really the results I wanted to see and yes valveman was right. I may have bought some more time but not as much as I wanted. I set the air pressure at the new tank on the system at 38 psi just like the tank at the pressure switch. So other than eating crow is there anything I can do such as change air presure at the second tank or maybe there is trapped air. Maybe cut my losses, take tank (if I can) back and install CSV, hard lesson learned I guess.